Pictured: Nashville Mayor Ben West shaking hands with Tokyo shoe manufacturing official Yasuma Oda (director of Chiyoda and of Genesco Japan) at the Genesco headquarters in Nashville on March 9th, 1961. Oda and three other businessmen from Tokyo...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...

A scene from the Genesco Industrial Park (1415 Murfreesboro Road) ribbon cutting ceremony in Nashville, Tennessee on August 5th, 1962. Genesco was originally founded as the Jarman Shoe Company in 1924 as a footwear manufacturer, they were later...